1. Lesson Objective: To analyse the poem using key linguistic terms
KEY WORDS:
Colloquial – informal and chatty
Dialect – words specific to a place
Modal verb – verb which shows degrees of possibility
Text 4 – Grandpa’s Soup
Lesson Objective: To analyse the poem using key linguistic terms

2. Dialect Specific words which are particular to a place.
Do you know any examples of DIALECT??
Why do writers use DIALECT?

3. Food as a memory of a person
The poem Grandpa’s soup is reflective and nostalgic in TONE.
The narrator recalls her grandpa’s soup with fond memories.
The TONE changes as she realises that he must have known when she was little that his soup would remind her of him after his death.

4. Tasks Find and annotate the following techniques in the poem:
Scottish dialect
Structural repetition
Interrogative sentences
Metaphor
Simile
Superlative adjective

5. Narrative Technique
The narrator switches from a child-like narrative to a more adult, reflective narrative, and then goes back to child-like.
Find the switch
What is particular about the poet’s word choices and style to make it a convincing child-like perspective?
How has the writer’s choice of words created a more reflective tone in the second stanza?

6. Attitudes and Values Mini essay response.
From this poem and one of the other texts we have read so far answer this question:
In what ways does the writer convey their feelings about food to the reader?
Lexis
Grammar
Structure